HB 1425 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE.

Summary

Establishes a temporary working group to study the feasibility of transitioning the Hawaii State Legislature's Regular Session from one that meets for three and a half months from mid-January to early May, to one that meets on a year-round basis. Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to provide administrative support to the working group. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status in committee 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 23, 2025 Last action Feb 10, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB1425 → HB1425_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a legislative reference document to a formal House bill (HD1) with improved structure and clarity. The substantive content remains largely the same, establishing a temporary working group to study transitioning Hawaii's legislature to a year-round session. The main changes are formatting improvements and minor text corrections rather than substantive policy modifications.

TECHNICAL

Document format changed from a legislative reference document (HB LRB 25-0190-l.docx) to a formal House bill format (HB1425 HD1) with proper header information and bill numbering.

Minor text corrections and formatting improvements throughout the document, including standardizing spacing and punctuation.

Added metadata information including bill number, author name (Chris Kobayashi), and document revision details that were not present in the original reference document.

Floor votes · House Feb 10, 2025

How they voted

44–3

Passed · 4 other

Total votes 51

Feb 10, 2025

D Democratic41

39 Yea 2

95% Yea

R Republican10

5 Yea 3 Nay 2

50% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Feb 10, 2025

Committee

Reported from LMG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 279) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 10, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (44-3-4)

house

Feb 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on LMG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Holt, Quinlan, Ichiyama, Morikawa, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to LMG, FIN, referral sheet 4

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors